Covid

Council urges immediate stricter Covid controls across all schools

Staffordshire is believed to be the first local authority to recommend bringing back such wide-ranging measures

Tom Belger
Tom Belger
Covid

School admission appeals flexibilities extended again to September 2022

Changes to the way appeals process works extended for another year, albeit with slightly different wording

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
News

Government urged to prioritise teachers amid fuel crisis

Union warns fuel shortage will cause ‘serious difficulties’ for education provision

James Carr
James Carr
Covid

Government to scrap power to force school closures

Ministers publish Covid autumn and winter plan

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
Covid, Ofsted

Schools ‘prioritised’ food parcels over remote learning, and 4 other things we learned from Ofsted

Schools’ focus on making food parcels and visiting disadvantaged pupils in the first lockdown may have affected their “capacity”...

James Carr
James Carr
Covid

Minister condemns ‘intimidation’ of schools after vaccination death threat warning

Vaccines minister says schools should 'not be afraid to speak to the police'

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
Covid

‘Abhorrent’: The schools caught up in the anti-vax crossfire

Police increase presence at targeted schools as councils demand extra powers to deal with protests

James Carr
James Carr
Schools

Chair of governors at ‘toxic’ Holland Park school resigns

Ex-charity CEO stands down from role at west London state school dubbed the 'socialist Eton'

Samantha Booth
Samantha Booth
News

Williamson looking at law change to put defibrillators in ‘all schools’

The government is looking at changing the law to ensure “all schools” have defibrillators, Gavin Williamson has said, following...

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker